Designer

_This is a 12-month fixed term contract to cover parental leave.

_You will be joining at an exciting time as we are in the process of re-branding from Ardonagh Advisory, part of the Ardonagh Group, to Everywhen. A new name in the market but a long established business, you will champion Everywhen to achieve its goals by designing and delivering creative assets in support of strategic business priorities, events, advertising, brand, employee engagement and other marketing activity.

Purpose Of The Role

Working as a member of the Creative Services team, this role creates bespoke design relating to the Everywhen business brands. This is a hands-on busy role which requires enthusiasm, the ability to multi-task, manage and drive your own workload and influence stakeholders, to achieve challenging business results.

Key Role Accountabilities

The role will report to the Brand Design Manager - Everywhen and will primarily be responsible for:

• Enhancing and protecting the Everywhen businesses visual brands across all internal and external channels and events, advising stakeholders on best use and providing necessary assets to ensure high quality, professional representation of the business with key audiences.
• Support the businesses to deliver all internal and external marketing activity through the delivery of high-quality creative design.
• Deliver high quality creative and design across all channels.
• Be a guardian of the Everywhen business brands, ensuring correct brand, tone and guidelines are used, both online and offline.
• Provide bespoke design for business tenders as required, working to clear SLA’s and deliver the required support to achieve business objectives, financial targets and delivers the objectives of the brief.
• Take ownership of all branded collateral you create ensuring all materials and assets are high quality, creative and accurately represent the brand.
• Support central functions and the segments with branding exercises across new systems, documents, and other related activity.

What experience do you need?

You will be an experienced Designer with a degree in Graphic Design or a related field or market experience for a number of years. You will bring expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud Software, MS Office and be able to present to colleagues and stakeholders with ease. If you have animation, video editing and/or motions graphics experience that would be beneficial but not essential.

The rest is all about you as a person;

• Most important is your ability to bring your best self to work every day to give your stakeholders the best possible experience.
• Strong attention to detail and a keen eye for design and aesthetics whilst having clear communication and presentation skills.
• Must be an excellent planner and self-sufficient in order to manage a varied and fast-moving workload.
• Demonstrate strong motivational and communication skills for stakeholder management.
• Have good understanding of project management to include planning, development and delivery of initiatives, with the ability to work on multiple projects at once whilst remaining calm under pressure.

As part of your application, please include an online link or document to demonstrate your portfolio. If not part of your application, we will request this evidence prior to any interview being considered.

Benefits

In return you will be welcomed and supported by our Ardonagh family, with opportunities to earn your annual salary, a role-based bonus opportunity and grow your career. You will also be joining an organisation that cares about you as a person and your wellbeing. Some of the other benefits are:

• Holiday entitlement of 26 days plus bank holidays
• Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family
• Award-winning learning & development offering and support to obtain professional qualifications to enhance your knowledge and career prospects
• Pension scheme for when you feel it’s time to retire
• 24-hour Employee Assistance support for you and your family’s physical and mental wellbeing
• Corporate perks such as discounted gym memberships, cinema tickets, shopping, Eyecare vouchers, cycle to work and much more
• One day paid volunteering to give back to our communities
• Ardonagh Community Trust (ACT) - raising funds for charity with donation matching in your local community
• The Spotlight Awards, where we celebrate the best of the Ardonagh Group and all the bright talent across our business.

We offer genuine potential for both personal and professional development, come and be part of our story and help us shape our future. So, what are you waiting for? Apply today and one of our team will be in touch.

#AIB

_Everywhen is an equal opportunities employer, with a growing and thriving diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; we are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.

__If your application is successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you commencing employment with us. These will include verifying your recent employment, address, credit history and a standard criminal record check.

_Please note: We may close a vacancy prior to the publish end date if the required quality or number of applications has been received. No Agencies please.